Operation Us is an initiative of Forest Institute in Springfield, MIssouri. Our mission is to provide high quality, affordable relationship education to residents of Southwest Missouri.The work of the Operation Us project is sponsored by the efforts of our community partners, both in Springfield and in the surrounding counties.
In addition to our educational workshops, we also are able to provide mental health and relational health counseling through the Robert J. Murney Clinic at Forest Institute.
Test your knowledge of relationship skills in our Online Gameroom!
Welcome to the Operation Us Online Library.
In this section of our site, we provide an archive of facts and figures about our project area, as well as about the importance of healthy relationships and healthy marriages. This is also where we'll keep copies of our press releases.
We also have a multimedia library that will connect you with copies of our radio and TV ads.
There was a chalkboard at the top of the stairs from the basement. After we shucked off our work boots, hung up our farm coats and tramped up the stairs to open the door, there it was. Our father used it to post logic problems or puzzles for us to think about and attempt to solve.
At breakfast, at least once a week or more, he queried us on new vocabulary words often from the Reader's Digest "Word Power" section, asking us if we knew what they meant. "Use them," he said, "and they will be yours."
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"As long as you spend it on school clothes and supplies," I replied. "That's what it's for, but you can choose how to divvy it up. Remember, though, when it's gone, that's all you're getting from us."
"No problem," he assured me confidently, "I know what I want."
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